PART 15Applications for Adult Disability Payment by individuals entitled to Child Disability Payment

Applications by individuals entitled to Child Disability Payment58

1

This regulation applies where an individual who is entitled to Child Disability Payment makes an application for Adult Disability Payment.

2

Where, on the basis of that application a determination is made that the individual is entitled to Adult Disability Payment, the date on which their entitlement begins is to be the date when the Scottish Ministers make the determination.

3

The value of the first payment of Adult Disability Payment to be given to the individual is to be increased by the value of Adult Disability Payment which the individual would have been paid for the period between the date—

a

their entitlement to Adult Disability Payment would have begun if this regulation did not apply to the individual, in terms of regulation 35(4) to (6), and

b

their entitlement begins in terms of paragraph (2).